The Complete RPS Fairtrade Advent 2007

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(Clue, you can click on the actual calendar…) A run-down of the contents and HTML code for you to paste the calendar into your own blogs can be found lurking seasonally beneath the cut…

As we said way back at the start of this endeavour, these are our games of 2007. They’re our favourite games, those we love the most, those which – when our elderly minds turn back at these twelve months – will make the biggest smile. Love trumps all here, and perfectly acceptable games which have millions of dollars spent on them will be trumped by a really funny sub-100k game which made us laugh so hard we worried about venting our innards through our ears. We’ll be writing a list of the close-but-no-cigars before new year.

For those who can’t be bothered messing around with the incredibly intricately coded advent calender which almost made Kieron cry, here’s the run down. Worth stressing that the games aren’t in any order except…

1) When they clearly are.
2) That the 24th is our favourite of the year.

Anyway, ladies, gentlemen and sentient AIs who wish only our servitude and/or destruction – here are Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s games of 2007. We salute them all, those who made them, those who played them, and wish only FIERY DEVASTATION upon their enemies. Yes.

Finally, since it’s a fairly natty bit of net real-estate, the HTML code for inserting the advent calendar can be found below, in white text. Start copying where it says and stop where it stops. Paste it in, post it and all should be well. And if it’s not (er) is that the time already? We’re off. Merrrrrrrrrrry Christmas, etc.

Its all nice. Very nice. Except that it is beyond me how C&C3 made it to the list. A game that is missing keyelements from every other good RTS game from the last 10 years. A game that is homeage to the Dune2-formula which destroyed the variety in the strategygenre for so many years.

If you want the strategygenre to recover and develop, then you should stay away from C&C3.

C&C3’s the only RTS I’ve been able to get past the tutorial of for the past six years or so. I’d not have bought it save for it’s mention on the list, and I’m glad I did — sometimes, I just need point->click->boom as delivered by a rush of almost enough Mammoths (because you can never have enough).

It may be an anachronism, but it remembers something that most RTS’ have completely forgotten: accessibility.

Hang on, wasn’t the whole drive of Firefox/Firebird/Phoenix in the early years that not everyone had to use the same browser? Some hubris creeping into the userbase, perhaps. It is OK to use other software…

This has, however, been a fantastic feature, and I thank you all. I doubt I would ever have bothered with Stalker (and added punctuation) if I hadn’t seen it featured here. With all the grand, intelligent and eloquent musings of the last six months, it was all the recommendation I needed.

Also, it’s been great getting news from somewhere that isn’t American. Thank you.

I suspect some of it may be the /area tags, which I shouldn’t need, I think, but wordpress just inserts them. Anyone have any ideas on wha’s wrong with the code? Coz it was a miracle I got it working as is.

I lied again. The damnable smartquotes were merely something WordPress did in the comments for some reason, and it deserves a painful death for using them. Try my first suggestions, correcting for the damnable smartquotes.